Resize fields in Django Admin

Question

Django tends to fill up horizontal space when adding or editing entries on the admin, but, in some cases, is a real waste of space, when, i.e., editing a date field, 8 chara

Answer 1

A quick and dirty option is to simply provide a custom template for the model in question.

If you create a template named admin///change_form.html then the admin will use that template instead of the default. That is, if you've got a model named Person in an app named people, you'd create a template named admin/people/person/change_form.html.

All the admin templates have an extrahead block you can override to place stuff in the , and the final piece of the puzzle is the fact that every field has an HTML id of id_.

So, you could put something like the following in your template:

{% extends "admin/change_form.html" %}

{% block extrahead %}
  {{ block.super }}
  
{% endblock %}